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But, I love it. And my mom loves it too. So, every time she visits me, we'll get one. Well, I always have to wait for her because I don't know how to open it and I can't finish one by myself. If only I live in Toronto where they sell frozen packaged durian...yummm......Anyway, here's the process to open it. First, you get a huge knife and hit it a couple of time at the tip (completely away from the stem). Be careful how you are holding it.
Then you'll notice natural splits in the skin and you just pull it open.
Then you put all the yumminess in a bowl.
Make sure you can all the tasty little morsels.
Repeat for all pockets.
Done! By the way, we had to do it outside because my dad and fiance hates the smell. When I went to Thailand, there were signs everywhere that says "no Durian" inside the hotels. Yeah, they don't want to scare away the tourists I guess.
And just to be clear, I don't like durian because it's yellow. It just tastes really good. It's very rich and creamy. I has a lot of fructose, so don't eat it if you are diabetic. My mom says durian is considered to be "hot air" and eating too much is not good for you. But, if you want to balance out the "hot air", you can pour some water in one of the pockets and drink the water from the pocket. I just eat the yellow stuff. :)
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I've never heard/seen this before but I want one NOW!! Me and my husband are always eating weird looking fruits and veggies just cause it makes us laugh :o) It looks really hard to open though!
Lisa Kate,
If you live in NYC, LA, SF, Vancouver, or Toronto, you can probably find frozen packaged durian in Chinatown or international grocery stores. That still tastes really good and you won't have to deal with opening it :)
:( I actually can't stand the smell of durian... it's very strong. Frozen maybe is fine, but I can't keep the idea of that smell out of my head hehe maybe I just have to try eating it more often...
I've seen Anthony Bourdain eat durian on one of his shows once. He mentioned the unpleasant smell. Now I am really interested to see just how bad it smells, and how good it tastes!
Oh the smell. The smell kills any desire to eat it. Well if its frozen durian I'm sure some boba place or tea place might be able to order it.
I have never heard of this before! As you say it doesn't look very attractive so I will take your word for it that it tastes nice :)
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